My main contributions, as an economic policy adviser, were three-fold: to help ensure that the model was correctly specified to address the issue in question; to understand the economic
policy significance of the results; and to present them cogently to decision - makers (ministers, heads of department et al.) The modellers themselves weren't always too good at (2) and (3).
Not exact matches
Given the
significance of climate change research in public
policy, the study's
results also provide important response to critics
of global warming.
This week, as you hear commentators celebrate «the most important Earth Day in history» and the global
significance of the signing
of the Paris Climate Agreement, remember the
result of policies similar to CPP: green energy poverty.